calenture
Example Sentences
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They seemed to me to have nothing more than calenture, brought on by overwork, a malarious atmosphere, and a bad sanitary environment.
From Campaigning in Cuba by George Kennan
Might he not urge in his excuse, to cloak him from his own and the world's contempt, some unsuspected calenture, for which, had he known, he ought to have taken medical advice?
From Our Friend the Charlatan by George Gissing
“Too old!”–His calenture ceased suddenly; there was a tug on his fishing line.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden
Yellow fever and calenture broke out among the troops in camp around Santiago about the same time that they appeared in Siboney.
From Campaigning in Cuba by George Kennan
Four more officers died, and most of Ralegh's personal servants, so that, though he was himself suffering from a severe calenture, he was attended only by pages.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
